Commentary:Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles

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Commentary for
Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
Production number	4ACV09
Recorded date	April 7, 2003
On DVD	Season 4 Disc 2
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Topics of Discussion

• Matt leaves during the introduction to make a phone call and doesn't return.
• The initial idea for the episode was to have Leela live with her parents.
• Only a few of the vehicles needed to be created from scratch
• The space station blown up is Deep Space Nine, from the Star Trek series of the same name.
  • Leela's book's cover features an alien based on the Gorn from Star Trek
• The 2000 election recounts.
• Cut scenes included Farnsworth selecting soft foods at the salad bar.
• This commentary was recorded a little over a week after the episode premiered.
• Popularity of botulism injections and use as an actual medical treatment.
• Actors needed to adjust their voices for the character variations, the commentators are especially impressed by those of Billy West, due to the sheer number of variations required of him.

*The producers considered nominating him for an emmy 

• Designing younger versions of characters.
  • Fry and Leela already had some young versions in earlier episodes.
  • Zoidberg's progression through various species.
  • Bender's early forms include the antennae ears that were in the early concept art.
• Race inspired by Star Wars' pod racers.
• The (mostly) scientific origins of the oil eating bacteria.
• David X. Cohen once lost an auction of trilobite fossils to Nicholas Cage.
• Pazuzu is named for the Assyro-Babylonian god Pazuzu, king of the demons of the wind. Although they actually got the name from The Exorcist.
• Maurice LaMarche is credited despite not acting, Brian Cowan, a producer who happened to be there, confirmed that Maurice won't be paid for the episode.

Highlights / Quotes

• Jeff Westbrook: We always like to get the Professor naked, it's one of our favourite visuals.
  Bret Haaland: Maybe one of yours.

Commentators

• Matt Groening
  • Executive Producer
• David X. Cohen
  • Writer
  • Executive Producer
• Rich Moore
  • Supervising Director
• Jeff Westbrook
  • Writer
• Bret Haaland
  • Director
• John DiMaggio
  • Actor (Bender, miscellaneous)
• Maurice LaMarche
  • Actor (Not in episode)

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